Protein in milk is good for you,
Flo-Jo was quite emphatic.
The casein in milk,
Is furniture Glue
That's why so many kids
are asthmatic.
500,000 children in New York
are tragically diagnosed
free milk at school,
free cheese each day
these sick kids are overdosed!

This female African American became an admired role model to all as a result
of her Olympic achievements in track and field. She crossed ethnic and
racial barriers, and her life became an inspiration to male and female,
black and white, young and old. Flo Jo, as she was most commonly known, was
wife and friend to Al Joyner and loving mother to her eight-year-old
daughter, Mary Ruth (Mo Jo). She combined her athletic ability with great
looks, personality and business acumen to build a financial empire that
included her line of unique clothing. She was in great demand as a
motivational speaker, and major corporations would seek her personal
endorsement of their products and services by offering enormous financial
inducements.

We will also remember Flo Jo by her appearance as a model and spokeswoman
for the dairy industry. She posed for a milk mustache ad, and in doing so
might very well have been betrayed and killed by a product that did NOT do
her body good. Nature's perfect food for baby cows is most certainly not
nature's perfect food for African-Americans. Three-quarters of the human
population of planet earth cannot tolerate lactose. Estimates of lactose
intolerance for black people run as high as ninety-five percent. We shall
never know if Flo Jo was aware of this fact. What we do assume is that
dairy industry executives and dairy scientists must know how black people
are so affected. FDA knows this truth and so does USDA.

Rest in peace, Flo Jo. Here is the official explanation of your death,
followed by contradictory evidence contained within your actual autopsy.

THE DRUG CONTROVERSY

Flo Jo was a magnificent athlete and had a beautifully well developed and
sculptured body. She was 1.65 m (5 feet 5 inches) tall and weighed a solid
69 kg (152 pounds). Many people suspected that Flo Jo's magnificent
physique, as well as her athletic success and subsequent death might have
been caused by steroid or drug use. One task of the medical examiner's
office was to confirm or negate this suspicion. An enormous collective sigh
of relief might have been produced by all of Flo Jo's friends and family
when the inquest and autopsy revealed no such steroid drug presence.

In order to come up with a cause, the coroner examined both forensic and
historical data. Many conversations between the sheriff's department and
the Dairy Education Board revealed to me that an asthma link was not
explored. The contents of Flo Jo's stomach were not rigorously examined, a
remarkable omission in the case of any autopsy. Yet, the comments of the
autopsy surgeon are quite revealing.

The official cause of death was "POSITIONAL ASPHYXIA" due to "EPILEPTIFORM SEIZURE."

The coroner had to fit this death into a series of circumstances. After
rejecting the steroid drug theory, a timely explanation was critical. There
had to be closure, both for the family and for enormous financial
considerations which survived Flo Jo's death.

Positional asphyxia is the same term applied to prisoners who die in police
custody, handcuffed with one or more police officers on their backs. It is
the label given to the deaths resulting from chokeholds. The medical
examiner wrote that Flo Jo died by suffocation. He concluded that she had
an epileptic seizure and smothered in her pillow.

Grand-mal epileptic seizures can be violent events. They are rarely pillow-
smothering events. The spasms included in such seizures often evidence an
array of confirming symptoms. One treatment for epileptics suffering such
seizures is to protect the mouth and tongue, which can suffer abrasions and
bites. There was no blood found in Flo Jo's mouth and the official autopsy
reveals:

"No trauma is noted on the lips or tongue."

There are many numerous signs and clues ignored by the coroner.

During the autopsy procedure I personally communicated with members of the
forensic team. I told them to explore whether Flo Jo reacted to CASEIN, the
most allergenic of all bovine proteins. Before his death, Dr. Benjamin
Spock called this milk and cheese protein the cause of most allergies.
CASEIN represents eighty percent of all milk protein! CASEIN is the same
glue used to hold a label to a bottle of beer and the same glue used to hold
together wood in furniture. Dr. Frank Oski, once the Chief of Pediatrics at
Johns Hopkins University Hospital, called CASEIN the etiology of violent
allergic reactions in greater than 50% of ALL children. African Americans
cannot tolerate bovine sugars (lactose) or proteins, and have a more marked
negative response to these milk components.

THE ASTHMA CONNECTION
Last Sunday (November 8, page 21), reporter Joe Calderone wrote in the New
York Daily News:

"Asthma afflicts an estimated 500,000 New Yorkers and is the leading cause of hospitalization among the city's children. Deaths from the disease, which can shut down a person's airways in minutes, have risen by 50% since 1980."

What else has proportionately risen by 50% since 1980? Free school lunch
and breakfast giveaway programs, that's what! What is the major component
of the free lunch? Surplus milk, cheese, ice cream and butter supplied by
USDA. Many of New York City's kids are African-American and Latin-American
and fall below the federal government's mandated food subsidy program.
Asthma deaths are far more fatal in New York than reported, contributing to
nearly double the number of deaths previously attributed to disease,
according to investigator Calderone of the Daily News.

Dr Neil Schacter, president of the American Lung Association was interviewed
for Calderone's article. Schacter believes that asthma deaths are being
under-reported and are sometimes called cardiovascular disease, rather than
asthma. Asthma is currently NOT a reportable disease. Dr. Harold Osborne,
Chairman of Emergency Medicine at Long Island Hospital College was quoted as
saying:

"If you are a person with asthma and another chronic illness such as heart
disease, and you are found dead, it is very likely that your cause of death
will automatically be listed as heart-related."

Why is the medical community ignorant of scientific studies implicating milk
and dairy products as the cause of asthma? This appeared in the journal of
Pediatric Immunology (1995;11)

"Food allergy may trigger allergic respiratory symptoms through two main
routes: ingestion or inhalation. We have shown that a significant
proportion of children with IgE-mediated cow's milk allergy experienced
asthma following double-blind, placebo-controlled oral food challengewith
cow's milk."

Clinical studies support the asthma-milk connection:

"In a series of 48 patients suffering from either nonseasonal asthma or
classic migraine, a marked clinical alleviation was obtained in 33 patients
by removing all cows milk protein from their diet."

THE AUTOPSY - CORONER CASE # 98-6262ME

Residues of two drugs were detected in Flo Jo's blood. One was aspirin and
the other Benadryl. Benadryl is an antihistamine. Flo Jo had histamines
produced in her body. She was congested. She took Benadryl to relive her
congestion. Why was it not clear that Flo Jo took Benadryl because she
experienced congestion from mucus? I had many conversations with the
coroner's office. "Look at the lungs," I pleaded. "Examine the contents of
her stomach." I was told that this was not necessary. I wondered why not.

If dairy products, particularly cheese, were found in her stomach, this
could at the very least confirm the suspicion of a violent histological
reaction to CASEIN, the powerful allergen. Page three of the autopsy
contains the smoking gun:

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
"The stomach contains 250 cc of digested material including some yellow
flecks, possibly cheese."

Digested material?

Had it been digested it would not have been recognizable!

Two hundred and fifty cubic centimeters of material, almost TEN hours later!

WAS FLO JO CONGESTED?

Here is what the autopsy reveals about Flo Jo's internal organs:

RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

"The lobes of the lungs are light-pink-to-dark-purple with marked congestion
and a large amount of frothy fluid exuding with pressure. The lumen of the
tracheobronchial tree contains mucus and frothy fluid." Flo Jo's lungs were
congested. She could not breathe.

OTHER BODY ORGANS - ALL CONGESTED

"The small and large bowels show congestion... the liver has a congested
appearance... pancreas, congested appearance... the pyramids of the kidneys
are congested... section shows marked acute congestion... cut sections of
the adrenal glands show acute congestion... a large amount of frothy fluid
is present in the larynx... cut sections of the thyroid gland show
congestion... congestion is noted in the pancreas." ... On and on, organ
after organ, filled with a glue produced by the body's defense to this
powerful allergen and tenacious glue, *** CASEIN ***.

CLOSING COMMENTS

Flo Jo's death was a tragedy. Her life was a symbol of inspiration to us
all. From death she cries to us with a powerful message which the medical
examiner missed. Such a message places suspicion and blame upon an industry
who hired her to betray those who trusted her with the dairy message. Milk
did Flo Jo's body no good at all. Milk and dairy products do no good for
those who have asthmatic reactions to CASEIN. The medical examiner noted
that those yellow flecks in her stomach were "possibly cheese." The medical
examiner did not consider the fact that Benadryl was taken by Flo Jo to
battle congestion. The medical examiner did not consider a link between the
congestion in her internal organs to the Benadryl or the common reaction to
bovine proteins, particularly CASEIN, which represents eighty percent of all
milk protein. In June of 1998, TIME Magazine disparaged Robert Cohen for
daring to say that milk protein was dangerous. Flo Jo paid for her
ignorance with her precious and beautiful life. Please spread this message
so that others might be spared a similar horror. After Flo Jo's death,
William Rhoden of the New York Times wrote:

"Flo Jo ran like the wind; critics said she was wind aided. Flo Jo ran with power; they said it was drug aided. Flo Jo ran with style; critics said that with six-inch fingernails and bodysuits, her career was a triumph of style over substance. Now Florence Griffith Joyner is gone, dead at the age of 38, and there is nothing else to say."